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“I know my rights and I got it, but not everyone knows their rights. This is a way of informing them.”

The advice leaflets being handed out by the campaigner at the screenings say claimants should always take someone with them to appointments as a witness, and should always describe their worst day with their condition and not their best, as they are asked for.

It also gives a list of contacts and links for websites of organisations with help and advice for those applying for PIP.

It is a chronic condition most often affecting one of the limbs, usually after an injury or trauma, and is believed to be caused by damage to - or malfunction of - the peripheral and central nervous systems.

“Hopefully more people will wake up and campaign and petition their councillors, MPs and AMs, because this decision to use a private company to assess people has to be overturned before more people die,” said Ms Underwood.

PIP entitles recipients to a higher rate of benefit and allows them to have a fully expensed mobility car.

Private firm Capita works on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions assessing claimants’ physical capabilities and their need for such a vehicle.